Letters: Insane war

The Yugoslav Immunological Society, like other scientific associations in Yugoslavia, has for the past 15 years functioned as a harmonious union of independent immunological societies from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia. In 1969 it was one of the founding members of the International Union of Immunological Societies. Since then, the society has developed personal and professional contacts with immunologists across all ideological and national barriers around the world and from all parts of Yugoslavia. During this period, a modern immunology with corresponding research and teaching was developed, international and Yugoslav immunological conferences were organised, and many immunologists from Yugoslavia participated in international research projects. Now, however, all these achievements as well as the existence of the Yugoslav Immunological Society itself are seriously endangered and even the lives of our young colleagues are threatened by a dirty and insane war.

This most uncivilised and irrational war in the heart of ...

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